Poetic memory : the forgotten self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück / Uta Gosmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosmann, Uta, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in literature.

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia.

Howe, Susan, 1937---Criticism and interpretation.

Howe, Susan.

Hinsey, Ellen, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.

Hinsey, Ellen.

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

Glück, Louise.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do poems remember? What kinds of memory do poems register that factual, chronological accounts of the past are oblivious to? What is the self created by such practices of memory? To answer these questions, Uta Gosmann introduces a general theory of 'poetic memory,' a manner of thinking that eschews simple-minded notions of linearity and accuracy in order to uncover the human subject's intricate relationship to a past that it cannot fully know. Gosmann explores poetic memory in the work of Sylvia Plath, Susan Howe, Ellen Hinsey, and Louise GlYck, four American poets writing in a wide range

Contents:

Introduction

Sylvia Plath : re-membering The colossus

Susan Howe's nonconformist memorials

Spacing the past in Ellen Hinsey's Cities of memory

Psychoanalyzing Persephone : Louise Glück's Averno

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-68393-782-1

1-283-36239-2

9786613362391

1-61147-037-4

OCLC:

774103999